Washington 0
30 September 2020

Twitter announced that “based on intelligence provided by the FBI… we removed approximately 130 accounts that appeared to originate in Iran. They were attempting to disrupt the public conversation during the first 2020 U.S. Presidential Debate”. The accounts “had very low engagement and did not make an impact on the public conversation”, Twitter noted.

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